Saturday, 9 March 2013

Guest Review: Julie Lawson - Emailing Allie

As a new year dawns, Allie needs various questions answered. Among the
most urgent are:

Where is her future leading? Why are relationships so
complex and confusing? Can she get through a day without five cups of
tea?

Hilarious, touching and unique, Emailing Allie delves into the life
and loves of 31-year-old Allie Rainsbury. Through emails sent to her
best-friend Julie, the smooth-talking David Marshall and the enigmatic
Scott Cooper (to mention but a few) we are taken on an frenetic, funny
and uplifting journey that charts her daily challenges both inside and
outside the office.Just like the title, this book is an email conversation Allie Rainsbury
has with her friends over the course of a year. Allie is our single 30
something year old who works within the marketing department and Julie
her married best friend works in HR. We follow their email conversation
through the highs and lows of Allies love life and her family life with
interaction from her male best friend, family and friends she makes
along the way.

It is a very down to earth read and very similar to
conversation that I have previously had with work friends and the like.
The scene is well set of any office environment with communications
taking place through sneaky emails. It is laugh out loud funny in parts
and moving in others. Sometimes I even found myself willing our
heroine on to wake up and smell the roses.

I really enjoyed Emailing Allie and have recommended to lots of friends and family, it is
definitely worth a read, the only problem I found with it, was that I
didn’t want to put it down. Just how long we will have to wait for the
next instalment I don’t know, but I do hope that it is soon.

I'd like to thank Midas PR for sending us a copy of this book to review.